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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-13-851-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-13-851-2022
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Research article
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28 Apr 2022
Research article |
| 28 Apr 2022
| 28 Apr 2022
MESMER-M: an Earth system model emulator for spatially resolved monthly temperature
Shruti Nath
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Climate Analytics, Berlin, Germany
Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Quentin Lejeune
Climate Analytics, Berlin, Germany
Lea Beusch
Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
now at: Center for Climate Systems Modeling (C2SM), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
now at: MeteoSwiss, via ai Monti 146, 6605 Locarno Monti, Switzerland
Sonia I. Seneviratne
Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Climate Analytics, Berlin, Germany
Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) and Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Short summary
Uncertainty within climate model projections on inter-annual timescales is largely affected by natural climate variability. Emulators are valuable tools for approximating climate model runs, allowing for easy exploration of such uncertainty spaces. This study takes a first step at building a spatially resolved, monthly temperature emulator that takes local yearly temperatures as the sole input, thus providing monthly temperature distributions which are of critical value to impact assessments.
Uncertainty within climate model projections on inter-annual timescales is largely affected by...
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